Episode 243 – Black and White Magic – New World Witchery – The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft

Dualism, Maleficum, and…jugglers?

Summary: In this crossover episode with our Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast, Myth-Taken, we chat about the history, etymology, and philosophy of magical dualism. We look in to necromancy, alchemy, and strangely juggling all to try to understand where these dichotomies came from.

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Sources

Cory gets pretty nerdy in this one, and uses a lot of sources including:

The Oxford English Dictionary Online (etymology nerds of the world unite!)
Ronald Hutton, The Witch
Phillip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic
Judika Illes, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft
Owen Davies, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
Bill Ellis, Lucifer Ascending

The transcript for this episode is available on our Transcripts page.

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